Burn the ships.

The first 700 days after raising your first venture round is a lonely stretch of crumbling assumptions, endless weeks, and painful resets.

True outlier startups are pre-determined by the intensity they set during this time. Brickyard is for serious, top-tier teams to build away from the noise so they can focus every watt on reaching escape velocity.

• We see thousands of decks / year, and invest in 10-12.

• We invest $100-$500k into technical teams at pre-seed/seed.

• Teams move here to focus & build IRL for 18-24mo.

• All our teams travel for work but this isn’t a part time thing. Burn the ships.

• We house 20-25 portcos on a rolling basis, at no cost to those who get in.

• We have nothing to do w/ economic development + zero expectation to HQ here.

• We’re not an accelerator— there is no formal programming or demo day.

• Our teams run this place. Brickyard partners are just useful accessories.

• We don’t make sense for everyone, and that’s ok.

There are simpler means of raising capital, and we don’t “ask” anyone to move here to build this way. Brickyard applicants self-select to have a chance to build in a small, competitive community of teams who all cut the bullshit in order to beat the trough.

Please read through our FAQs before submitting your deck. If you decide to apply, we will reach out if we’re interested in what you’re building!